Your brain likes novelty, and surprisingly, a little bit of a struggle.

Hobbies involve creativity, self-expression, and cognitive stimulation—and they enrich your world.

Knitting, cooking, and gardening can do a lot more for your brain than you think. After knitting a scarf, you can’t help but feel a sense of accomplishment. When your garden starts to flourish, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's never too late to pick up one of these hobbies that have been scientifically shown to increase longevity. Americans often ...

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Hobby-maxxing is the 2026 trend replacing doomscrolling with pottery, knitting, baking, book clubs and other hands-on hobbies.

Want a better life? You need a hobby. A study published last year in Nature reveals that people who engage in hobbies experience greater life satisfaction, more happiness and fewer depressive episodes ...

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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I like to talk, and, sometimes, when I find that I’m droning on and on, I rein myself in by ...